Visual Studio 2017 cannot update Microsoft.NETCore.App package (“Blocked by project”)

Question

I have a dotnet core app that is targetting Microsoft.NETCore.App 1.1.2. I created a test project to test against that project but when building I noticed this warning:

Answer 1

I solved it by simply: Right clicking on Project (or ALT+ Enter) -> Properties -> Application -> Target Framework (Choose .NET Core framework (in this case 1.1))

Answer 2

I had same problem and I think, the problem is about the package.

<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />

The problem was resolved after I specified version exactly.

<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" Version="2.2.0" />

As I know, that error is occured when the version number